Add marks, notes, and texts in drawings

Tekla Structures
2024
Tekla Structures

Add marks, notes, and texts in drawings

You can add many kinds of annotation objects in your drawings, such as marks, notes, and texts. Some of these are associative and some independent.

Marks and notes are associative annotation objects, which are updated according to the changes you make in a building object in the model.

In addition to the automatic marks that you already may have in a drawing, you can add new annotation objects and modify their properties:

Drawing content manager

Add part marks manually in drawings

Add reinforcement marks manually in drawings

Add reinforcement marks with Rebar group marking application

Adjust mark visibility in an existing drawing

Add reinforcement ticks or reinforcement tags in drawings

Show welds in drawings

Add marks to spiral beams

Add level marks in drawings

Add and modify connection marks in drawings

Add and modify surface treatment marks in drawings

Add associative notes in drawings

Modify marks or notes in drawings

Drag leader line associativity point

Update part and weld marks in drawings

Delete marks for selected parts

Check changed marks, notes and dimensions and remove change symbols

Merge marks

Text, section marks, revision marks, and detail marks are independent annotation objects, which are not linked or connected to the Tekla Structures model in any way. Other examples of independent annotations objects: DWG/DXF files, symbols, various types of sketch objects, links and hyperlinks.

Independent annotation objects will become associative if you snap to a building object when you create them, because then the objects will get associativity points. For example, in texts, the content does not change when the model changes but the associativity point may change. Another example is a line: if you snap to a part edge when you create a line in a drawing, the line will get an associativity point and move with the part in the drawing if the part changes in the model.

You can add and modify texts, shapes, section marks, detail marks, DWG/DXF files, links, hyperlinks, revision marks, sketch objects, and symbols in an open drawing only.

Add and modify section marks in drawings

Add and modify detail marks in drawings

Add and modify text in drawings

Add revision marks in drawings

Add symbols in drawings

Add links in drawings

Add sketch objects in drawings

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